SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURABLE DEPLOYMENT OF TRANSIT AGENCY CONTENT

• US 20130275861A1
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trapeze Software ULC (Constellation Software Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Trapeze Software ULC (Constellation Software Incorporated)
• Inventors: GODDARD, Matthew Carl, PAYNE, Bruce, GAVIN, David, BOWN, Damian
• Granted Patent: US 9,892,470 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/14 Travel agencies
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety

Abstract

Systems and methods for configurable deployment of transit agency content are provided that allow plug and play functionality modules, based on available transit data required by such functionality modules, to be placed on webpages. Further, content may be developed and published to various transit data sinks from a single dashboard.

Claims

1. A system for configurable transit agency content management comprising:

one or more transit data databases containing one or more transit data datasets;

one or more functionality modules, each being configured to interact with one or more transit data databases and transit data datasets to provide functionality, each having one or more functionality module user interface components to allow users to interact with the functionality module; and

a webpage design module, having a design module user interface component displaying a preview webpage, configured to allow one or more of the functionality module user interface components to be placed thereon to create a webpage.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the webpage design module is configured to determine which functionality modules'"'"' functionality module user interface components can be placed thereon.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein the determination is based on whether the one or more transit databases include the transit data datasets required by the functionality modules.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the determination may be made in real-time or before functionality module options are presented to a user.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the one or more functionality modules may be configured to receive parameters relating to the functionality, query one or more transit data databases based on the parameters, and display one or more results of such query.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the one or more transit data databases may comprise one or more of route databases, asset databases, schedule adherence databases and trips databases.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the one or more functionality modules may comprise one or more of route planning, asset monitoring, schedule adherence and trip planning modules.

8. The system of claim 4 wherein the one or more functionality modules may be configured to receive parameters relating to the functionality, query one or more transit data databases based on the parameters, and display one or more results of such query.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the design module user interface component has a module selector located thereon, the module selector containing one or more icons representing one of the one or more functionality modules, each icon being selectable or not selectable and wherein, if selectable, the functionality module can be placed on the preview webpage.

10. A method for configurable transit agency content management comprising:

receiving a request to design a webpage for a transit agency by placing one or more functionality modules on a webpage preview;

determining what transit datasets the agency has access to;

allowing one or more functionality modules, each functionality module requiring one or more transit datasets for operation, to be selected and placed on the preview webpage based on if the determining indicated the agency has access to the transit datasets required by the functionality module.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising placing a functionality module on the webpage preview based on a user action.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising receiving customization parameters relating to the functionality module and adjusting the appearance and operation of the functionality module based on the parameters.